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PATENT CHARLES M. BOWMAN, OF LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,777, dated June 20, 1893.

Original application filed January 26, 1893. Serial No. 459.833. Divided and this application filed April 3, 1893. Serial No. 468,906. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES M. BOWMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lebanon, in the county of Lebanonand State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Matches; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the sam e.

My present invention relates to frictionmatches and has for its object certain improvements in machines for making this class of matches economically. v

The invention will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form part of this specification, Figure 1, represents a rear elevation of my improved machine for making matches; Fig. 2, an end elevation of the same; Fig. 8, a vertical transverse section; Fig. 4, an enlarged sectional view of part of the fulminate depositing drum Fig. 5, a transverse section of the same; and Fig. 6, a top plan view of section of a sheet of matches, the product of the machine.

Reference being had to the drawings and the letters thereon A. A. indicates the two ends of the frame of the machine, upon which the several parts are supported, and are connected by longitudinal bars a. b. c.

B, is the fulminate receptacle provided with a jacket (1 to form a chamber 6 for steam or' hot water to heat the fulminate and maintain it in a semi-liquid or plastic condition and is detachably supported between the ends of the frame.

Within the fulminate receptacle are two pulleys g. 72. supported upon shaftsi k, to the latter of which motion is communicated by a gear wheel Z, and upon said pulleys is supported a flexible fulminate conveyor 0.

In the upper part of the receptacle B, and extending across the same is a scraper m to regulate the quantity of fulminate presented to the fulminate depositors, and may be adjustedin the usual manner of adjusting analogous devices.

D is a fulminate-depositing drum mounted upon a shaft n supported on brackets 0 p, and is revolved by a gear wheel q which meshes with a gear wheel 0 attached to the shafts upon which the drum E is supported.

In the drum D are longitudinal groovesi in which are inserted bars to provided with a number of chambers o to receive fulminate and deposit it upon the paper of which the matches are made. The grooves t are equidistant in the periphery of the drum, the space between them being equal to the length of the matches to insure the depositing of the fulminate near one end. and on one side of the matches: Each chamber 1; terminates in a cylindrical nozzle w and is provided with a piston or plunger yattached to a bar a so that all the pistons of each baru are operated synchronously to draw in and eject the fulminate at the proper time in the revolution of the drum D. On the ends of the bar 2 are friction rollers a which travel in grooves b b on the inside of the heads 0 c which are separate from the body of the drum and are stationary. The grooves are provided with a raised part cl, as shown in Fig. 3, which commences at a point e just below the center of the axis of the drum to raise the pistons y when the fulminate chambers or receptacles are in a vertical position to draw up fulminate from the conveyor 0, and terminates at the point f, to deposit the fulminate when the ends of the nozzlesw are brought into contact with the upper side or surface of the paper as it passes over the drum E. The pistons y are retracted just sufficient to draw into the chambers or receptacles 'v a drop of fulminate large enough to serve to ignite the matches. When the rollers a strike the projections e in the grooves b b, the fulminate is carried in the chambers 12 .until the rollers reach the end of the raised portion of the track at f when as the rollers descend from said raised portion the plungers are forced down and quickly expel the fulminate upon the paper By reference to Fig. 3, it will be observed that four of the bars 2 operate in slots g in the arms h of the drum D. The paper in the roll F is placed on a'shaft t" which is supported in the ends A. A. of the'frame so that the roll can be readily inserted, and the paper is passed under the drum G and between it and the drum H, which two drums constitute the feed mechanism for the paper by fric- -in like manner sever the paper transversely and form a fragile connection between the contiguous ends of the matches. The paper thus cut or perforated is readily separated when it is desired to pull or break oif a match from the sheet or card.

The drum G is revolved by a gear wheel m which meshes with the wheel 01, attached to the shaft of the drum H, and it is connected to the wheel by the pinion 0 so that all the revolving parts of the machine operate in unison.

Power may be applied to the machine in.

any approved manner by supplying a suitable pulley to be attached to one of the shafts supporting the gear wheels.

After leaving the drum E, the sheet I is properly divided into matches 13, and each match provided with a drop q of fulminate passes over a revoluble drum K and is again rolled after having traveled a sufficient distance to allow the fulminate on the match-to dry.

The paper may be of any kind suitable for the purpose, manila or straw being preferred, and is of a thickness suflicient to give body to the match, and is first prepared by saturating the paper with a suitable inflammable material such as paraffine, wax or their equivalents until the paper has become thoroughly impregnated, after which it is dried and is then rolled, whenit is ready to be converted into matches. Paper thus treated burns steadily and is not easily extinguished by currents of air.

It has heretofore been proposed to print matches, by providing a cylinder with small projections on its periphery and immersing or dipping said projections in fulminate and pressing the projections against the lower surface of a sheet of paperto print thefulminate on the paper of which the matches are formed. I11 such a construction the fulminateis liable to gravitate off the ends of the projections before they reach the paper and as a consequence no deposit of fulminate on the paper can be relied upon. In contradistinct-ion to such a construction and procedure, I convey the fulminate in suitable chambers or receivers and at intervals drop or deposit the fulminate on the upper side of the paper as it is being fed through the machine and thereby secure the proper quantity of fulminate to each match to insure ignition.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle, chambers or plungers for raising, conveying and expelling fulminate in drops, and means for feeding paper.

2. In a machine for making matches, the combination of afulminate-reoeptacle, a fulminate conveyer, chambers or plungers for raising, conveying and expelling fulminate in drops and means for feeding paper.

3. In a machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle an endless conveyer in said receptacle, a drum provided with chambers or plungers for receiving, conveying and depositing fulminate, and means for feeding paper.

4. In a machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle, a fulminate-conveyer, a drum provided with fulminate chambers supported above said receptacle and conveyer, and a suitable support for a sheet of paper below said drum.

5. In a' machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle, a drum provided with a plurality of fulminate chambers and plungers, arranged equidistant in the periphery of the drum, a fulminate conveyer below the drum and means for feeding paper.

6. In a machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle, a heating chamber for said receptacle, a convey-er within the receptacle a plurality of fulminate chambers and plungers, revolubly supported above said conveyer, and means for feeding paper.

7. In a machine for making matches, the

combination of means for puncturing paper longitudinally and transversely at the contiguous edges and ends of the matches, a 111- minate receptacle, a plurality of fulminate chambers and. plungers, and means for feeding paper. 8. In a machine for making matches, the combination of means for feeding paper, means for puncturing the paper at the contiguous edges and ends of the matches,a fulminate-receptacle and a plurality of fulminate chambers provided with plungers.

9. In a machine for making matches, the combination of means for puncturing paper, a fulminate-receptacle, a revoluble drum provided with a plurality of fulminate chambers and plungers a revoluble support for paper while the fulminate is being deposited thereon, and means for feeding paper.

10. In a machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle, a fulminate-conveyer, means for puncturing paper, .a plurality of chambers provided with plungers for raising conveying and depositing fulminate in predetermined quantities, and means for feeding paper.

11. In a machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle, a drum provided with 'a plurality of bars having chambers therein, bars supporting plungers for said chambers and engaging grooves in the heads of the drum and means for retracting and projecting said'plungers.

12. In a machine for making matches, the combination of a fulminate-receptacle, arevoluble drum supporting a plurality of bars provided with chambers, bars supporting plungers'for said chambers within said drn m, lat. In a machine for making matches, a fuland stationary heads for the drum providedminat'e-depositor consisting of a drum prowith grooves with which the ends of said vided with a plurality of grooves, bar's havplunger-bars engage. ing chambers therein and supported in said x 5 5 13. In a machine for making matches, a fulgrooves, and plungers for expelling fulminate.

minate depositor consisting-of a plurality of In testimony whereof I affix my signature in chambers provided with plun'gers, and means presence of two Witnesses.

for retracting the plungers a fulminate con- CHARLES M. BOWVMAN. veyer to raise fulminate and means for pro- I WVitnesses:

0 testing the plungers to expel the fulminate E. HEOKMAN,

from the conveyer. i

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